Seat for harvesters and other machines



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BPECZZFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 841,922, dated May 18,1886.

Application filed March 5, 1884. Serial No. 123,141. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD M. Know, a citizen of the United 'States,residing at Old Chatham. in the county of Columbia and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seats for Harvestersand other Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to seats for harvesters and other machines; and itconsists of the devices and combinations of devices hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 represents a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan Viewof the same. Fig. 3is afront elevation. Fig. 4 is a side elevation,partly in section, of the standard and elastic bracket pivoted theretowith the seat removed. Fig. 5 is a plan view showing a modified form ofsome of the parts, and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same. 7

Similar letters refer to similar parts through out the several figures.

A represents the upper end portion of a seat-supporting standard of amowing-machine, horse-rake, sulky-plow, or other machine which carriesthe driver of a team. This standard may be made of any material and inany form usual in the trade, and is secured to the machine inthe usualmanner. The upper end of this standard is so bent (preferably rearward)as to form the horizontal step a; or this step may be made of a separatepiece from the standard and be securely connected with the upper end ofthe same. Said step is pierced centrally with a vertical hole, a, forreceiving a pivot-bolt 0r swivelpin, 0.

B is the seat,which is provided at its opposite sides and at the upperedge of its rim with hooks b b, which are preferably cast with the seat;or they may be attached to the seat by rivets or their knownequivalents. These hooks are arranged so far above the plane ofthebottom of the seat that the latter is suspended, and the weightthereon will tend to maintain it in a horizontal position forward andbackward.

D is the bracket from whichthe seat is suspended. It is preferably madeof springsteel and in a bow shape. At the middle of its body or lowerportion it is provided with a hole, d, for the reception of the pivot c,and the upper ends of its arms are provided with eyes or pierced cars 61d, as shown. I prefer to make this bracket of the form shown in Figs. 1,2, 3, and 4:, with its curved arms in a vertical plane transverse of themachine and rising to a distance a little greater than the depth of theseat; or it may be made in the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6,with its armsextending forward and upward, and gradually turned or twisted from thehorizontal flatportion toward the upper ends of the arms,- as shown.With this form the seat will he suspended from points forward of thevertical line of the pivot c, the arms of the bracket, and in the bowthereof by links 6 6, connecting the hooksb and eyes (I. If desired,eyes may besubstituted for hooks b b, and hooks may be substituted foreyes (Z (Z of the arms of the bracket. This bracket is secured to thehorizontal step a of standard A by the pivot'bolt 0, so thatit may bereadily turned in either direction horizontally on said step, asindicated by arrows in Fig. 2. Being thus pivoted to the standard, theseat may be readily turned in either direction by the driver at will;and the seat, being suspended, as above described, from the elasticbracket D by the links 6 e, or equivalent flexible connections, will beprevented from tilting with the machine when the driver is seatedthereon, or, rather, it will be permitted to swing forward and backrelative to the machine when the latter is tilted forward or back,because the weight of the driver will be below the points of suspension,and the supporting-arms being elastic, and the seathaving flexibleconnections therewith, the arm on that side of the machine which may beraised as it passes over the ground will yield more than the other, andthe seat willthus be maintained in a horizontal position transversely.These features operate to hold the seat ,wheu weighted by the driver, insubstantiallya horizontal position,whether the machine is passing overlevel surfaces, or up or down declivities, or along the sides of hills,or when one of the wheels is raised by some obstacle, and also to giveto the driver'an elastic support at all times, and prevent him frombeing jolted when the machine is passing over rough or uneven surfaces.The bracket being pivoted to the standard, so as to adapt it to beturned horizontally in either direction, enables the driver at will toturn the seat more or less to the right or left, to enable him to viewhis Work behind the machine without twisting about on his seat, and alsoto readily dismount from the seat or mount the seat from the side orrear instead of from the front, which is of great advantage in mowers orreapers and horse-rakes.

Theseirnprovements are applicable to all agricultural machines whichhave carryingwheels and a drivers seat, and also to roadsulkies andother vehicles.

Having described myinvention, what I claim as my invention, and desireto secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. In combination with the seat and seatstandard, an elastic bracketpivoted to said standard, and having upward-projecting arms 1 with eyesor ears, of a seat provided at its sides with books located above theplane of the bottom of the seat and link-connections between said hooksand the eyes in the bracket-arms, as and for the purpose set forth.

8. The combination of the standard A, provided with the step a, theelastic bow-shaped bracket D, pivoted to said step, the seat 13,provided with hooks b b, and flexible suspending-connections betweensaid hooks and said bracket, substantially as set forth.

ED\VARD M. KRUM.

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ALEX. SELKIRK, ALEX. SELKIRK, Jr.

